Education Week: Dropout Costs Priced for 50 Major U.S. Cities:
"'The Economic Benefits of Reducing High School Dropout Rates in America’s Fifty Largest Cities'
If half the students who dropped out of the class of 2008 had graduated, they would have generated $4.1 billion more in wages and $536 million in state and local taxes nationally in one average year of their working lives, according..."
"'The Economic Benefits of Reducing High School Dropout Rates in America’s Fifty Largest Cities'
If half the students who dropped out of the class of 2008 had graduated, they would have generated $4.1 billion more in wages and $536 million in state and local taxes nationally in one average year of their working lives, according..."